Re: Boot.ini Editing Question - URGENT

From: Tom Porterfield (tpporter_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:33:26 -0500

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:15:01 -0800, cates2 wrote:

> Thanks for your response.
>
> What would the benefit be to retaining "the ability to boot from the recovery
> console on the hard drive"?

If you have your XP CD and can boot from the RC on the CD, that is a better
option than booting the RC from the hard drive. So if you have that
ability, then I would recommend removing the option to boot to RC from the
hard drive.
 
> If I want to keep it, then putting the time out to zero will just cause the
> menu to display so fast that I can't read it?

True. So what's your priority - Not seeing the boot menu at all, or being
able to boot RC from the hard drive? If you want to keep RC on the hard
drive, then a compromise would be to set the timeout to a small value, such
as 3, which would make the delay pretty short but long enough to make a
choice if needed. 

-- 
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
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